How 'Ripley' Became TV's Most Beautiful Masterpiece

NetflixPatricia Highsmith’s classic 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley has been made into two sterling films: 1960’s Purple Noon starring Alain Delon, and 1999’s The Talented Mr. Ripley headlined by Matt Damon, Jude Law, and Gwyneth Paltrow. Nonetheless, Netflix’s new Ripley stands head and shoulders above its predecessors (and most modern TV offerings) as an adaptation par excellence.Over the course of its eight exhilarating episodes, all of them shot in breathtaking black-and-white by Oscar-wi

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